We're completing a project centering on our Service Level Agreement with the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), which is producing a number of research and advice reports...

We've complied a dossier of evidence in response to the NHS Next Stage Review.

Topics: healthcare rural-advocate healthcare 

In rural England two fifths of the population is over 50, a quarter over 60, and 1 in 12 over 75, and these proportions are growing. 

This demographic trend has a wide-ranging effect not...

Topics: older-people social exclusion services social-inclusion fuel-poverty housing disadvantage 

Planning in rural areas is about balancing the many demands on, and needs of, rural communities...

Topics: rural-experience planning coastal-areas climate-change rural-proofing commission rural-places sustainable-communities affordable-housing older-people 

This work is evaluating the experience of recent neighbourhood policing reforms within rural communities, highlighting policy advice emerging from the research as well as good practice examples.

Topics: rural-governance rural-services access-to-services post-offices crime-and-policing crime-and-policing best-practice local-government 

We're pleased the Government has recognised the important social and economic role of post offices...

Topics: rural-services access-to-services post-offices 

Details of some of our work on the future of rural post offices...

Topics: post-offices financial-inclusion rural-services access-to-services post-offices rural-services access-to-services crime-and-policing best-practice 

The Rural Development Programme for England Network has been set up under European Union Rural Development Regulation to support the implementation and evaluation of the RDPE. Visit the RDPE Network website to find out more about the network and benefit from sharing ideas, knowledge, experience and practice with others at www.rdpenetwork.org.uk

Topics: rdpe-network uk-national-rural-network uk-national-rural-network rdpe-network rdpe rdpe rural-development-programme-for-england 

In January we asked for your views to help us shape an important piece of work which will lead to ongoing monitoring on how rural delivery is affecting and benefiting rural communities. We want to ...

We aim to achieve a positive influence on inclusion, representation and effectiveness of rural people and communities and their political representatives and others...